Chapter 146: Hidden Crimes in the Abandoned Clay Factory

Chapter 146: You Must Be Crazy?

In the mountainous area of a county town, there stood an abandoned ceramic clay factory.

This clay was originally destined for a local ceramic factory in the county.

It specialized in making ceramic cookware.

Eight years ago, the ceramic factory shut down, and with mismanaged operations at the clay factory, it was rented out and turned into a dog-meat breeding farm.

Xiao Yu entered the breeding farm just in time to see two workers preparing dog food at a huge cauldron.

The so-called dog food was a slow-cooked mix of cornmeal and bone fragments.

The two workers had rather peculiar appearances.

One was a towering, fierce brute.

“What do you do here?”

Upon seeing Xiao Yu step into the yard, the burly man shouted.

The other, a bald man with a scowling face, came over to look.

“I heard you sell fragrant meat?”

Xiao Yu smiled and explained, “I want to buy some.”

Fragrant meat was local slang for dog meat.

“We don’t sell individual portions here, only wholesale,”

The brute stepped in front of Xiao Yu, sizing him up with a brief, appraising glance before saying, “You better scram.”

“Can’t you sell any at all?” Xiao Yu’s smile vanished as he calmly glared at the man.

‘Wangdie’s Nose’ activated…

In an instant, Xiao Yu was overwhelmed by a barrage of scents.

There was the smell of local dogs, but also that of humans.

Especially human, and there were plenty of them…

Scents never lie.

How could a mountain breeding farm have the odor of young women and children?

It was confirmed – this place was exactly as rumored!

“What the hell are you babbling about?”

The brute’s annoyance flared; he glared and barked, “Get the hell out of here!”

The bald man’s eyes flashed with a savage gleam.

“Fine,”

Xiao Yu nodded, “Since you’re not buying meat, then… will you sell humans?”

The brute froze in shock.

Not far off, the bald man’s expression changed dramatically.

“Damn!”

Snapping back to his senses, the brute swung a punch at Xiao Yu’s face.

Thud!

His fist halted about a meter away from Xiao Yu’s face.

The brute slowly collapsed to the ground.

Xiao Yu retracted his leg from between the man’s thighs, sidestepping an attack from a falling shovel.

Bang!

In one fluid motion, Xiao Yu’s punch landed on the bald man’s face.

Under the force of ‘Bear Force’, the bald man’s nose shattered, his face blossomed with blood, and he crumpled to the ground.

Xiao Yu’s movements were simply too swift.

By the time the Criminal Police and SWAT Teams burst into the yard, both brutes lay sprawled on the floor.

“Search!”

Xiao Yu flicked blood from his hand and spoke calmly.

Fifteen minutes later.

“Report, we’ve found them!”

A SWAT member shouted.

They had found the storage area at the Tibetan section!

The breeding farm was once a ceramic clay factory.

Where did the clay come from?

A mine in a massive mountain.

After the factory closed down, the mine was sealed.

Clay could be sold for money, so it was bound to be sealed off.

When the wooden door used for sealing was reopened,

Xiao Yu entered the mine, discovering four boys and two young girls.

Like chained dogs, their necks bound with iron chains, locked against the wall.

Seeing the police, they shrank into corners, too terrified even to cry out.

With his heart tightening, Xiao Yu left the mine…

The arrest began.

The human trafficking ring consisted of twelve people.

Within two days, including ringleader Wu Jifang, they were all apprehended.

First a gang of beggars, now a human trafficking group.

Most members of this criminal organization had already been caught.

Only their leader, suspect Dong Qi, and a mysterious boss had evaded capture…

“Think you can get away?”

Xiao Yu sneered as he led his team onto a plane bound for another city…

…

After a while,

Xiao Yu arrived in a bustling metropolis.

The Magic City!

Imagine a crime lord who, not long ago, had just killed a police officer.

Yet he was hiding within this massive city?

What was even more unbelievable was that,

through data from technical personnel on suspect Liu Xinggang’s phone usage and base station locations,

they discovered that the most frequent area for these phone numbers was in the richest district of the Magic City.

Properties here started at tens of millions.

Tens of millions indeed.

For someone from the countryside to amass such enormous wealth through human trafficking and controlling beggars?

“Pull up Tianyan Surveillance and inspect every business and residential area in this district!”

Xiao Yu ordered the Magic City police.

After sixteen hours,

Suspect Dong Qi’s location was locked down.

Under the relentless force of the police machine,

“How do you plan to escape?”

…

Wang Hongbin, 48, a small business owner…

Disguised in plain clothes, Xiao Yu strolled into a residential area, stopping at an apartment building and pressing the intercom button.

“Who is it?” came a gentle voice from a woman.

“Hello, I’m with the property management. Is Mr. Wang Hongbin home?”

Xiao Yu replied with a smile, “We need to consult all residents regarding a new green space plan.”

Bang – the apartment unit door swung open.

“My husband is home. Come on up,” the woman said before hanging up.

“Ha!”

Xiao Yu’s lips curled into a grin. His face wore a thick smile that betrayed no amusement as he stepped into the unit…

The entryway door swung open, and a heavily made-up middle-aged woman glanced at Xiao Yu at the door, momentarily stunned before her eyes lit up.

Xiao Yu felt as if a she-wolf had fixed her gaze on him.

The woman was about thirty-three or forty years old.

Right in the prime of a wolf’s age…

“Please come in,” she said affectionately.

“Thank you,”

Xiao Yu nodded, changed into slippers, and stepped into the lobby.

He saw a middle-aged man sitting on a sofa fiddling with his phone.

Xiao Yu squinted and smiled.

Wang Hongbin?

No, I should be addressing you as Dong Qi!

“Why do property issues keep piling up?”

Dong Qi set down his phone with a cold, irritated expression. His eyes flashed with a steely glint as he glared at Xiao Yu.

In that fleeting moment, his expression went blank.

Was it because Xiao Yu was too handsome?

No.

It was because of Xiao Yu’s aura.

As the leader of a criminal gang, throughout his years he had dealt mostly with one group:

The police!

Especially that unique scent and demeanor that clung to them.

Even in death, he’d never forget it!

“Aren’t you smart? Can you tell me this—”

Xiao Yu walked over to the sofa, sat down slowly, and stared directly at Dong Qi. “Answer me one question: If you fled back then, why return to kill one of my colleagues?”

Indeed, it was baffling.

How could someone, already on the run, turn around and murder a police officer… Are you insane?

How does one deal with a person like that?

I suddenly had a daring idea… Xiao Yu mused, then dismissed it.

For such audacity, the state already had a thoroughly refined punishment system.

But…

Dong Qi abruptly stood up, snatched a fruit knife from the coffee table, and lunged at Xiao Yu.

Ha… Xiao Yu just smiled.

Thud!

The glass of the floor-to-ceiling window in the lobby shattered with a resounding crash.

Dong Qi, charging at Xiao Yu, had his knife-wielding arm split apart from midsection.

The severed arm, still clutching the knife, flew up into the air…